Boston illustrated; . and copies of it may still be seen insome antiquarian libraries. Cambridge has at the present day some of thelargest and most completely furnished printmg-offices in America, conspicuousamong which are the Riverside Press just described, and the University Press,offices which are perhaps the most celebrated in the country for the qualityand accuracy of their work. Many of the hundreds of thousands of bookspublished annually in Boston, and not a few of those issued by publishers inNew York, including illustrated books requiring the finest workmanship andthe greatest care,
Boston illustrated; . and copies of it may still be seen insome antiquarian libraries. Cambridge has at the present day some of thelargest and most completely furnished printmg-offices in America, conspicuousamong which are the Riverside Press just described, and the University Press,offices which are perhaps the most celebrated in the country for the qualityand accuracy of their work. Many of the hundreds of thousands of bookspublished annually in Boston, and not a few of those issued by publishers inNew York, including illustrated books requiring the finest workmanship andthe greatest care, are printed and bound at these establishments. Not very farfrom the collegegrounds standsone of t h e fewfamous trees ofthe coiuitry, —the WashingtonElm, — the onlysurvivor of theancient forestthat originallycovered all thispart of C a m -bridge. It wasunder tliis treethat GeneralWashington tookcommand of theContinental a r -my on the morn-ing of the 3d ofJuly, 1775. AThe Washington Elm, Cambridge. neat fence Sur-. BOSTON ILLUSTRATED. 149
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